First Grade

Folk tales, nature stories and fairy tales, pictorial phonetic introduction to letters, reading approached through writing; qualities of numbers, introduction to the four processes in arithmetic, multiplication tables.

Second Grade

Legends, animal fables, and nature stories; reading, writing, simple compositions; continued work with the four processes of arithmetic; gardening.

Third Grade

Old Testament stories and Jewish legends introduce history; study of practical life: farming, house building, clothing, cooking; reading, spelling, speech, cursive writing; weights and measures, time, money and review and practical application of four processes.

Fourth Grade

Norse mythology and sagas, indigenous people of California; composition, grammar, spelling; local geography and map-making; study of the animal kingdom; fractions, poetry.

Fifth Grade

Ancient civilizations of India, Mesopotamia, Egypt and Greece; Greek myths; U.S. geography related to vegetation, agriculture and economics; composition, grammar, spelling; decimals, ratio and proportion; botany, poetry.

Sixth Grade

Geometry with compass and straight-edge; Roman and medieval
history; South and Central American geography, astronomy, geology, physics (acoustics, magnetism, optics, heat); spelling, composition, grammar; poetry; compound and simple interest, percentages; gardening; woodwork; handwork; music - wind and string; introduction to Latin.

Seventh Grade

Voyages of exploration, Renaissance, Reformation; European
geography; physics (electricity and mechanics), physiology, astronomy,
inorganic chemistry; Asian geography; composition, spelling, grammar,
literature, poetry; algebra and Euclidean geometry; gardening; sex and drug education.

Eighth Grade

History and geography of the modern. World (Industrial
Revolution to the present), American history; literature (Shakespeare, short stories), poetry; algebra, geometry; physics, organic chemistry, Life Science, anatomy, physiology, gardening, sex and drug education.